"Matthew." Theodore called.
Matthew slowly look at Theodore and he frown more after seeing Theodore's face.
Now, they were both glaring at each other.
"What?" Matthew asked then he walk towards Theodore.
"What did you do to Miel?" Theo asked.
Matthew smirked and rolled his eyes.
"She just learned the truth. She deserves to know it anyway." Matthew answered.
"What truth?" Theodore asked even if he already figured out what Matthew meant on what he said.
"I love someone else--" Matthew was interrupted by a strong punch from Theodore.
"I knew it. You're a jerk!" Theodore angrily said.
"Is it my fault that that best friend of yours fell in love with me easily?" Matthew said with a smirk.
"Damn you!" Theo shouted but Matthew just laughed.
"Another one. Do you know that I got her without even courting her? I just asked her to be my girlfriend and she agreed. She's so easy to get." Matthew proudly said that triggered Theo.
Out of anger, Theo punched Matthew again but this time, it's a lot harder.
"Fuck you! If you just let her live peacefully, she would have been happy today and enjoying the examination day. But look at her now! If it happened that I didn't saw her, she might have die!" Theo shouted angrily.
People around them were already looking at them but Theodore doesn't care anymore.
"How dare you!" Matthew shouted then he punched Theodore too. Theodore manage to avoid Matthew's punch but he almost lost his balance. Theo regained his balance then he glared at Matthew again.
"Die? Stop overreacting." Matthew said with his serious voice.
"Overacting?" Theodore asked bitterly. "You know nothing. This is the first time that Miel fell in love with a guy that's why she gave everything. She's ignorant and you took advantage of it." Theodore said while glaring at Matthew.
"So what? Everyone experience first-----"You broke her trust! You ruined her! You used her! While all that she do is to take care of you and love you faithfully!" Theodore interrupted Matthew with his ranging anger.
"Did you even know that he refused to take all of her examination for today and just walk like she's out of her mind in the middle of the rain? She's even unaware that she's crossing the road. If I'm not the one who found her. If I did not look for her. What do you think will happen to Miel huh?" Theodore spat angrily.
Matthew's expression suddenly change. He became worried.
"W-what?" Matthew asked.
"Maybe this is the reason why I'm not really comfortable with you being Miel's boyfriend. You're a user. You're just thinking of yourself. " Theodore said then he pushed Matthew's shoulder before getting inside his car.
He left Matthew there, unsure of what he should do.
After minutes of just staring blankly in the air, Matthew decided to message Miel.
"Hey. How are you?"
"Why did you do that?"
"You can just let out all of your anger to me."
"Hurt me all you want instead of ruining your life."
Matthew stared at his messages to Miel.
"You should take care of yourself first before others." he whispered as if he was talking to Miel.
"Matthew." someone called him. He look at the direction where he heard it and saw that it's Ahliya.
He don't know why but he can't feel anything. He's just worried and sad.
Ahliya walk towards him and held his hand.
"Can we go somewhere? We're already done in all of our examinations. We need to rest and enjoy you know." she said.
"Okay. Let's go to a bar?" Matthew asked.
"Sounds good!" Ahliya excitedly said.
"Okay then let's go." Matthew said then he walk towards his car, not minding that Ahliya is with him.
Ahliya's jaw dropped when Matthew just left her and walk alone towards his car.
"Babe!" she called.
Matthew stopped from walking and suddenly, she remember Miel.
"What the?" he whispered. He shook his head and erased Miel in his mind. He pitty Miel. He's feeling guilty.
Suddenly someone held his hand. He looked at her and saw that it's Ahliya.
"Are you okay?" Ahliya asked.
"Ah, yeah. Let's go." He said then he opened the door of the passenger's seat. She helped Ahliya sat there before he went to the driver's seat.
"Hey." Ahliya called when Matthew finally entered his car.
"hmmm?" Matthew asked but Ahliya just answered him with a kissed and he responded to it.
***********
"Good afternoon, sir." The maid greeted me when I entered Miel's house.
"Good afternoon. Where's tita Mariella?" He asked.
"She's in front of the door of Miel's room." Answered the maid that made Theo confuse.
"Why?" He asked.
"Ma'am Miel is already awake. She didn't say anything and she went downstairs. Ma'am Mariella is talking to her but she remained silent. We didn't know what she's up to until she took all the keys of the door in her room and she locked herself there. Now we can't come in her room." The maid sadly explained everything..
"What?" Theo said then he immediately went upstairs.
When he arrived in front of Miel's room, he saw Mariella there who is continuously knocking at Miel's door and trying to talk to her.
"Darling please. Just eat. You have fever. You need to eat and take a medicine." Mariella said, begging on her daughter.
"Tita." Theodore called Mariella.
Mariella look at him.
"Theo, please help me." She said.
Theo went closer to Miel's mother and he comfort her.
"I will, tita. For now, go downstairs and have something to eat. I'll talk to Miel." Theodore said and Mariella agreed.
When Theodore is finally alone, he sat on the floor and leaned his back against the door of Miel's room.
"I know that you can hear me." Theodore said.
"I also know that you're in pain and it's too overwhelming that you don't know what to do. This feeling is very new to you." He added.
"But please take care of yourself. "
"This experience is a lesson."
"It's okay to cry. Cry it all. Cry all your pain and if you had enough, stand up again and begin a new life and remember the lesson that you have learned in this experience so in the future you will not do this mistake again."
"You two were over now but it's doesn't mean that you're now alone. You're not alone, Miel. You will never be." Theo said then he get up and was about to leave when Miel's door suddenly opened.
He turned around and saw how messy Miel looks like. She's crying.
"Hey." he called.
But Miel didn't say anything and just went closer to Theodore then she hugged him.
She cried silently in Theo's shoulder while hugging him tight. While Theodore caressed her back and hugged her too.
"I'm always here." He said.